December, 191 4 



MAINE 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, 



ORONO, MAINE 



CHAS. D. WOODS, Director. 



ANALYSTS. 



James M. Bartlett Herman H. Hanson 



Royden L. Hammond Edward E. Sawyer 



Elmer R. Tobey Hoyt D. Lucas 



(Official Snsipettionsf 



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SEED INSPECTION. 



The Commissioner of Agriculture is the executive of the law 

 regulating the sale of agricultural seeds in Maine. It is the 

 duty of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station to make 

 the analyses of the samples collected by the Commissioner, and 

 it is the duty of the Director to publish the results of the 

 analyses of the samples of agricultural seeds, together with the 

 names of the persons from whom the samples were obtained, 

 the names of the manufacturers thereof and such additional 

 information as may seem advisable. 



The first law regulating the sale of seeds was enacted by the 

 Legislature of 1897. This was revised by the Legislature of 

 1905. This was again revised by the Legislature of 191 1 so as 

 to conform with the requirements recommended by the Asso- 

 ciation of Official Seed Analysts and agreed to by the Ameri- 

 can Seed Dealers Association. The chief requirements of the 

 law follow. The full text of the law will be sent on request. 



Note. All correspondence relative to the inspection laws should be 

 addressed to the Commissioner of Agriculture, Augusta, Maine. 



